On Sun, 6 Dec 2020, Riccardo Mottola via macports-users wrote:
I can think of two scenarios [ for static binaries ]:
- building "always safe" binaries which can be used at system level,
e.g. login shells, tools, things put in launchd. That is things you want
to always work, even if you are during a MacPorts upgrade. NetBSD offers
two packages for the same thing, e.g. bash and bash-static, IIRC.
perhaps in MacPorts it could be a "variant"?
Agreed; FreeBSD has an "/sbin" directory (and "/usr/local/sbin")
containing stuff that absolutely must be available, even in the lack of
absence of shared libraries.
-- Dave
